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Rare pieces by Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, and Vico Magistretti speak to her longtime love for 1960s and ‘70s Italian acrylic furniture and lighting they commingle with her own custom works alongside those from her tight-knit community of makers in Los Angeles, including Waka Waka, Dan John Anderson, Peter Shire, Michael Felix, and Kalon Studios.īelow, Ziperstein shares five of her favorite objects from her new showroom. “Bari is known for her colorful glazes, so we injected bright, sophisticated hues throughout the offices and lounge space: worlds away from the production studio on the other side of the wall.” She and her staff are also coated in ceramic dust throughout the day, so Foss Hildreth avoided upholstery and rugs in favor of hard-surface furniture and accessories that could be easily wiped down. “Our objective was for clients to feel fully immersed in Bari’s world as they enter the studio,” Foss says. Over in the showroom, she now enjoys a kitchen and break room for staff and visitors, her own private office, and a meeting space for clients. Not only does it dramatically expand her dedicated production floor, it makes room for a glaze department, eight production kilns, a photography studio, and an inventory and fulfillment warehouse. And the newly expanded space fits the bill. “It has long been a dream of mine to grow the studio space in a way that sustainably nurtures all three aspects of my practice,” Ziperstein says. Ziperstein enlisted longtime friends Luke Foss and Ashley Hildreth of local firm Foss Hildreth-alums of The Future Perfect, her collectible design gallery-with envisioning an all-encompassing facility that stays true to her colorful aesthetic while still remaining practical for the dynamic needs of an evolving ceramics studio. There’s BZIPPY, her furniture and housewares brand BZ Collectible design, which primarily serves the interior design trade and her fine art practice that recasts her signature vessels as captivating canvases that nod to Soviet visual culture.
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“When called upon-either for an exhibition or for the need to make art myself-we all have these skills at our fingertips.” Ditto when it came time to upgrade her home base, which involved expanding her studio to a 9,000-square-foot ceramics workshop and creating an all-new showroom to better serve the manifold branches of her practice. When we last caught up with Bari Ziperstein, her studio was much smaller but no less a well-oiled machine: “My design practice helps my team and I sharpen our skills, gain dexterity with materials, and experiment with craft and engineering,” the Los Angeles ceramicist told Surface.